Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Major O. M. Williams, Monmouthshire Regiment, killed in action on the Western Front, 13 October 1915

1914-15 Star (Capt. O. M. Williams Mon. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Major O. M. Williams) nearly extremely fine (3) £140-180

Oswald Michael Williams was commissioned Second Lieutenant into the 2nd (Volunteer) Battalion, South Wales Borderers on 20 August 1904, and transferred to the 1st Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment on 1 April 1908. Appointed Instructor of Musketry on 20 January 1909, he was promoted Captain and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War. He was killed in action on the Western Front on 13 October 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.